How to extend phone’s battery life
Remember your first cell phone? If used to last at least 3-4 days with moderate usage. Modern cell phones and smartphones last 2-3 day and even just one day with heavy usage. That’s partially because of the new functions that make you use the phone every few minutes for checking email, listening to music, browse the web and so on. Even if general battery size has increased the average battery life has decreased.
Battery life is important for me
If you hate that there are a lot of methods to increase the battery life of your phone, almost all of them being free. This guide might not seem all that new as it consists of pretty obvious methods but some I’m sure will find it interesting. So here it is.
Tips for increasing cellphone’s battery life
- keep the phone at room temperature as extreme temperatures tend to reduce battery life – so don’t keep it in your hand during winter for example
- turn screen brightness to minimum or activate the automatic brightness sensor, if your phone has one
- turn off Bluetooth
- turn off WiFi
- turn the screen power saver on or set it up to activate as soon as possible
- don’t use the external speaker and set the earpiece to lower volume
- don’t make pictures
- don’t access the internet
- set to phone to use a 2G network
- don’t use the screen too much
- turn off vibration notifications
- if you own a smartphone make sure you close all background running applications
- buy an extended battery for your phone, if there are available items for your model
Those small changes in usage patterns helped me increase the battery life of my Nokia E71 from 2-3 day to a full week. Of course I can’t use (or not use) my phone like this and I manage in average 3 to 4 days of use with moderate to light usage. Do you have any other tip about how to increase modern phones battery life? If so feel free to share them here with me.
